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retrieving lost hard disk space
Name: Anthony Morgan Date: December 24, 2003 at 02:12:22 Pacific OS: xp pro CPU/Ram: 1 gig 256 ram
Comment:
Hi, Me being an absolute novice on a computer i only today realised that my hard disk drive will indeed hold 40G. but my C: drive shows only a capacity of 2 GIG. How do i reclaim this lost space?
Name: bluefox Date: December 24, 2003 at 02:26:31 Pacific
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if u want to spend some money get partition magic8.
othewise go to www.bootdisk.com and download win98 se bootdisk on floppy. back up all your data and note settings on a paper. boot with 98 floppy and at a:> type fdisk and delete your present partition and fdisk the whole disk and reformat and again re-partion it.
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Response Number 2
Name: Anthony Morgan Date: December 24, 2003 at 02:47:55 Pacific
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not sure if i know how to back up everything. i don't have have a CD writer
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Response Number 3
Name: Lesley Date: December 24, 2003 at 07:33:50 Pacific
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Anthony
Are you quite certain that the 2Gb is Unused and not Used - where are you looking to see these figures?
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Summary: The chkdsk of my C drive read 40GB of hard disk space (40GB, 8GB used, 32GB free) including hidden files yet windows C drive properties read 38GB, 8GB used, 30GB free) including system files. I use di...
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